What is the difference between .rpm and .tar.lz?
- Extension
 - .rpm
 - .tar.lz
 
- Format
 - Binary
 - Binary
 
- Category
 - Compressed
 - Compressed
 
- Developer
 - Red Hat
 - Lzip
 
- Description
 - The RPM file format, associated with the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM), is a package management system primarily used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives like Fedora and CentOS. An RPM file is essentially a container for software or data that allows for easy installation, upgrading, and removal of software on a Linux system. It encapsulates compiled software, metadata about the package such as its version, architecture, and dependencies, and configuration files necessary for the software to run correctly.
 - "Tarball" (.TAR file) compressed with Lzip, a lossless data compressor based on the LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain) algorithm, and therefore uses the compound file extension ".tar.lz;" often used for distributing linux software packages.
 
- MIME Type
 - application/x-redhat-package-manager
 - application/x-lzip-compressed-tar
 
- Wikipedia
 - .rpm on Wikipedia
 - .tar.lz on Wikipedia